Richard Amos

TITLE:

Chief Instructor

GRADE:

7th Dan

BIOGRAPHY:

Born in England in 1963, Richard
Amos sensei began karate at age 10. Occasionally
teaching from
as young as 15 he was invited onto the KUGB
Junior Karate Team at 18. By the age of
23
he had competed in England and Europe gaining
many Gold, Silver and Bronze medals in numerous
championships.

After a two-year sojourn in New York, he
went to Japan to train at the headquarters
of the Japan Karate Association and stayed
10 years. During that time he completed the
3-year instructor's program of the JKA (only
the 2nd Westerner ever to do so in its 50-year
history), placed second or third in the All-Japan
Championships several times (no non-Japanese
had ever reached the semi-finals before),
taught many classes each week over a 6-year
period in the headquarters of the JKA (another
first) and opened his own school in the heart
of Tokyo.

In 2000 Amos sensei moved to New York again,
this time as an established professional
karate
instructor with an international reputation.
He is currently the chief instructor of
the
World Traditional Karate Organization heading
its instructor program and teaches everyday
at the headquarters dojo on 63rd Street and
3rd Avenue in Manhattan.

Eiji Maeda

TITLE:

Assistant to the Chief Instructor

GRADE:

6th Dan

BIOGRAPHY:

Born in Yamaguchi Prefecture , Japan in 1964, Eiji Maeda sensei began karate at the age of 11 with Yoshihiko Kawamura of the Japan Karate Association.

In 1983 he left for Tokyo in order to train more seriously at the JKA headquarters in Ebisu and passed shodan in 1984, nidan the following year and sandan in 1989.
In 1991 he became kenshusei under the instruction of Asai sensei, Abe sensei and Yahara sensei among others and two years later was appointed the Chief Instructor of Nihon University in Ochanomizu, Tokyo.

In 1999 he became the first godan in the Japan Shotokan Karate Association and continues to assist Abe Keigo sensei at various seminars.

Maeda sensei first visited New York in 2002, teaching and officiating at the WTKO Nth Atlantic Championships and accepted a position as Assistant to the Chief Instructor at the WTKO Honbu Dojo in April 2007.